Za Za Bazaar

{{Short description|Restaurant in the UK}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox restaurant

|name=Za Za Bazaar

|logo = Zazabazaar.com logo.jpg

|logo_width = 150px

|image = Za Za Bazaar Bristol.jpg

|established= November 2011

|head-chef= Nitin Bhatnagar

|city= Bristol

|website= {{URL|zazabazaar.com}}

|country= United Kingdom

}}

Za Za Bazaar World Banquet & Bar is a buffet restaurant in Bristol, England.

The restaurant, in Bristol's Harbourside area, opened just before Christmas in 2011. Its construction lasted thirteen weeks, and cost £3 million.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bristolbites.co.uk/2011/12/04/za-za-bazaar-review/|title=Za Za Bazaar: Review|date=4 December 2011|website=Bristol Bites|access-date=31 July 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/30/britains-biggest-restaurant-opens|title=One thousand diners: Britain's biggest restaurant opens|last=Morris|first=Steven|date=30 November 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} It was billed as the largest restaurant in the United Kingdom, and seats 1,000 people, eclipsing Croydon's Cosmo restaurant in size, which seats 800.{{Cite web|url=https://visitbristol.co.uk/food-and-drink/za-za-bazaar-p1292553|title=Za Za Bazaar - Bristol|website=Visit Bristol|language=en-GB|access-date=31 July 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/8973383/Za-Za-Bazaar-Bristol-restaurant-review.html|title=Za Za Bazaar, Bristol, restaurant review|work=The Telegraph|last=Norman|first=Matthew|date=2 December 2011|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}

It was established with the plan to open another seven "super restaurants" across the United Kingdom, in an investment of £10m, that was rumoured to create 1,000 jobs in eighteen months. However, the expansion did not materialise, and a planned restaurant in Norwich has yet to be built. The food is split into the main categories of Far East, Tex Mex, European and Indian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/27/za-za-bazaar-bristol-restaurant|title=Restaurant review: Za Za Bazaar, Bristol {{!}} John Lanchester|last=Lanchester|first=John|date=27 January 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

A second restaurant, situated in Newcastle City Centre, permanently closed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18598908.newcastles-za-za-bazaar-permanently-close-due-coronavirus/|title=Newcastle's Za Za Bazaar to permanently close due to coronavirus|work=The Northern Echo|last=Scott|first=Jim|date=22 July 2020|access-date=29 April 2021}}